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[JobLeonard]

Here is a short preview of the overworld map (showing the first world Midgard).

Hey, an update! Yay!

How is development going? It's been almost a year since you posted here

Very satisfying overworld, btw

[JoeManaco]

Hi. We had a break from the project for several reasons: After evaluating the feedback from the demo from the steam next fest we realized what we still need to do, and we felt a little burned out by the project. There were financial reasons as well, so we had to step down development quite a bit. Personally, I also felt a little burned out of the project after working on it for such a long time, so I did some smaller side projects to recharge my batteries. We are now actively developing the game further and hope to get it finished some time :-)

[JoeManaco]

Oh, and here is the teaser for the second world map

[JobLeonard]

It looks really good!

What was the feedback?

[JoeManaco]

The feedback was very positive, but by observing players we found a lot of problems in the later levels. We got a really bad pacing in some levels. We had sections with lots of small puzzles one after each other and that felt just boring. Also our levels were way tooo long (some levels had a playtime >1 hour - and that felt frustrating to a lot of players especially when the levels had sections that were frustrating (both because of difficulty and too little variety).

We also had the problem that some enemies/obstacles are pretty easy if you discover a special bounce/shot/trick with the hammer, but are insanely hard and frustrating if a player doesn't discover the "clever" solution. But on the other hand we don'
t want put solutions like that in a tutorial because part of the fun is if the player discovers something like that on his own (especially if he tried 2 or 3 times the hard way and then discovers the trick).

[JobLeonard]

Now that you mention it, I never thought about this consciously before but I do prefer multiple short levels over "marathon" levels, yeah. Good call!

[vdapps]

Good luck with finishing the game after recharge! Me, I experienced similar.

[JoeManaco]

Good luck with finishing the game after recharge! Me, I experienced similar.

Hope you're feeling better right now.

Here is the final part of the overworld map:

[JoeManaco]

And here is a timelapse:





Enjoy :-) I hope this cools down everyone who is sitting in front of the computer sweating today :-)

[JobLeonard]

Oooh, nice, especially the time-lapse is interesting

[JoeManaco]

Here is the new title screen of Tiny Thor. We already had one, but people didn't like it, and we also thought a handmade pixelart screen would do the game more justice.

[JobLeonard]

Looks great!

[wolfsden]

beautiful art! Looks amazing!

[JoeManaco]

After many years of development we finally released our game Tiny Thor on

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/541310/Tiny_Thor/
GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/tiny_thor
EPIC: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/tiny-thor-76de1f

Thanks for all the valuable feedback you provided here over the years. It really helped us to shape the game.

If you buy/play the game, please also leave a review. This helps us a lot.

[Alain]

Big congratulations on the launch!

[TonyManfredonia]

I haven't been on TIGSource in YEARS. But I got an email notification saying this launched.

Big congratulations to ALL of you! Many blessings and well wishes in your development journey. Can't wait to try this out!

[JobLeonard]

Congrats on the release! 

Bought it... on the same day I had to send my Steam Deck back for repairs

Guess I'll get to play it in a month